Michael Haneke Quotes
Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.
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Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
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I am the only candidate who is going into this contest with a positive vision of the future.
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Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.
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John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante.
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A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
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It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.
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Raven. Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal? Alexander - If he's with the right girl.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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You don't help yourself.
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How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
